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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Trees very quickly stop being effective though. As soon as they die, they return all that captured CO2 back into the atmosphere

    You’d also joined to plant billions of trees just to keep up with current CO2 emissions, let alone all part emissions

    Basically, to convert all CO2 from the atmosphere into oxygen you’ll need to spend the same amount of energy as you got out of it by burning fossil fuels. With losses included, you can triple that. Add to that the energy required to gather the CO2 and the e energy required to safely store it and you can easily quadruple it

    So basically take all the energy we’ve generated since the industrial revolution, quadruple that, and that will be the amount of energy we’ll need to spend to remove the CO2 from our atmosphere. If for the next, say, 200 years we stop emitting CO2 and double our output, we spend 50% of the world’s power on CO2 scrubbing, we’d end up with a clean atmosphere. That is being generous

    Planting a few trees won’t do anything at all

    Planting entire forests the size of larger countries would do little

    We opened Pandora’s box and it’ll cost us centuries to close it





  • From an era of peace and prosperity we went to the entire world re-arming itself, revitalizing old irrelevant hatreds and conflicts, and many counties are back to playing the land grab game; if I steal if from you and I’m stronger than you, what are you going to do about it?

    And so here we are, all speed running to WWIII because fuck you, I got mine, and I want yours.

    Fuck you government of China, fuck you Winnie pooh

    Fuck you government of Russia, fuck you Putin

    Fuck you government of Israel, fuck you Netanyahu

    Fuck you government of the USA, fuck you Cheeto man.

    I hope all of you die slow, painfully and miserable. you don’t even deserve a wall and a bullet, it’s too humane for monsters like you.

    Can we PLEASE start a new united nations without China, Russia and the United States, no one nwithh veto powers. Can we then give that united nations an actual super army directed by all counties, and anyone trying shit we beat back down in the sand.

    This shit HAS to stop. 20000 fucking years of humanity and we’re still all listening to narcissistic psychopaths. I’m so so so tired.


  • It’s what humanity has been doing since it’s inception, pretty much, and usually it’s followed by prolonged torture and murder just to set an example for the rest

    This, so far and as far as thing had gone in the very near past, I’d really quite peaceful on comparison

    Having said all that: fuck all religions. We live in current year and with all scientific knowledge we have, you use the pinnacle of scientific knowledge -the mobile phone- to be informed about the latest update on your stone age fairytale beliefs and complain about those damned evil scientists. You’re dumb AND an asshole.

    Religions should be fully prohibited





  • Let us have safe bicycle infrastructure do that we can bike to those stores, how about that? And with that, add mixed constructions in the suburbs so that people have small local stores around.

    A bike costs a fraction of a car

    Bicycle infrastructure building and maintenance costs a fraction of that for cars

    Bicycles don’t emit CO2. And for those wise asses saying that the cyclist does, it’s a fraction of a fraction of a car because you’re not lugging 2 tonnes of stell around to transport you and a bottle of milk.

    Cycling infrastructure is much more efficient, you can push a shit tonne more people over the same road if you don’t need big ass cars. Yes, even your Mercedes smart car is I ass compared to a bicycle

    It creates much much less pollution from tire dust

    It’s much safer, bicycles kill only a fraction of the people that cars kill all year round

    It’s healthier, people do exercise not because they went to the gym, but all day every day with their bikes

    It cuts the noise pollution

    It’s cheaper because no taxes, no gas needed, maintenance is a fraction of that of a car.

    It’s way less wasteful

    It lowers aggression. Though it may or may not exist, I’ve never heard of bicycle road rage

    Need more?

    Less cars is less parking spaces. Parking spaces get cities barely any taxable income. Instead of these ugly ass concrete wasteland parkitsoaces you can now have restaurants with outside patios which can be taxed. Couple that with the cheaper infrastructure, and that alone should be an obvious reason as to why do this

    It’s really not that much slower. For typical short trips, bicycles usually only add some 10-20% of required time to your trip.

    For any trip over say, 5-10 kilometers, use good public transportation

    For those once in a lifetime trips where you actually need a car because you need to transport something huge, use one of those Evo rent-a-car.

    In the Netherlands, a huge amount of people don’t have a car. Not because they can’t (they totally can) but because it’s stupid to have one. You can go everywhere by bike, you can jump with your bike in a train when needed to go further, cars are expensive and bad for everyone, why even have one?